Workshops
The following five workshops will each be two hours in duration or two concurrent sessions. There is no charge but you must register before April 11, 2008. Laptops will be provided if required or you may bring your own. Please indicate your wishes on the form. If you need to cancel for any reason contact Connie Hildebrand because we often have a waiting list.
#1. Peer-review 101: Get Ready to Make Your Mark
Wednesday April 23, 2008 1:00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. Alpine W (Concurrent with #2)
No computer required
Sandra Lee (Sandy) Hawes, Distance Learning Reference Librarian
Saint Leo University
Elizabeth (Liz) Richardson, Access Services Librarian
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Johanna Tuñón, Director of Distance & Instructional Library Services
Nova Southeastern University
Marta Lee, Reference Librarian
Regent University
Jane Hutton, Electronic Resources Librarian
West Chester University
Objectives:
Through exercises, participants will uncover their "inner peer-reviewer." After completing the workshop, they will be able to assess their own abilities to act as informal, collegial peer-reviewers for other librarians. Participants will exercise their editorial and peer-review skills on excerpts of unpublished manuscripts and compare them to the comments of experienced journal editors.
Learn how to act as an informal peer reviewer for your colleagues. Find out if you have what it takes to be a peer reviewer for an academic journal. Workshop participants will learn and practice the skills they need to serve as peer reviewers for their colleagues or for scholarly journals. Workshop presenters will use visual presentation software to demonstrate common writing errors made by unpublished authors in their submissions to peer-reviewed academic journals. Suggestions from editors about what should and should not be written in scholarly articles will be discussed.
Presenters will offer suggestions about approaching the writing process, including a demonstration of how to insert editorial comments on electronic documents.
Workshop participants will work in small groups of no more than 10 per group. Participants will receive excerpts from previously submitted draft manuscripts. Groups will discuss and suggest revisions to these excerpts before they receive copies of the same excerpts showing editorial comments made by experienced journal editors. Participants can then compare their peer reviewing efforts to the peer review work of the journal editors. Presenters will facilitate the work of each group.
Bibliographies and supplementary handouts will be provided as take-home materials. All materials used in the workshop will be watermarked and participants agree not to pirate materials.
#2. Usability Testing of Library Web Sites
Wednesday April 23, 2008 1:00 p.m. to 2:55 p.m Theater (Concurrent with #1)
Maximum 20
Laptop provided if needed
Stefanie Buck, Librarian for Extended Education
Jon Dillon, Systems Staff
Western Washington University
Objectives:
We will be giving an overview of usability testing of library web pages based on our experiences at Western Washington University library. There will be opportunities for “hands-on” usability testing as well as discussion about practices and methods, including post-test analysis and reporting.
Participants will:
- Define usability and understand common usability metrics
- Identify methods used for conducting user research
- Identify different usability testing methods
- Develop objectives and tasks for a usability test
- Run a brief usability test on a web site
- Understand methods for recording, analyzing, and reporting usability data
Participants will be provided with references to other resources on usability testing.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to set up and run a basic usability test.
#3. Online Collaborations with Elluminate™ Live!
Thursday April 24, 2008 9:40 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Theater
Maximum 20
Laptop provided if needed
Judy Green, Instruction and Reference Librarian
Kathy Murray, Health Sciences Librarian
Jerry Voltura, Instructional Design Specialist
University of Alaska Anchorage
Is your university offering more distance courses? Have you ever tried to provide instruction about the details of searching EBSCO to a class over the telephone? Are you looking for a way to meet with out-of-state colleagues without traveling? Does your university have access to Elluminate Live? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, this workshop is for you!
Elluminate Live, a real-time virtual classroom software product, is used for highly interactive live online instruction, collaboration, demonstrations, and meetings.
Join two librarians and an Instructional Design Specialist from the University of Alaska Anchorage for a hands-on session in using Elluminate Live!. Bring a teaching module or collaboration idea to work on in order to increase the usefulness of this workshop.
This session is geared to both potential and current users. Current users will be invited to share their experiences, insights, and opinions.
After this session, you will be able to:
- Recognize the primary applications of Elluminate Live!
- Discuss how this software is currently being used at your institution, if applicable
- Identify uses of Elluminate Live! in your work environment
- Apply functions of Elluminate Live!, such as white board, chat, sharing applications, recording for later viewing, and sharing documents from your instruction and collaboration activities
- Evaluate the usefulness of Elluminate Live! software for your specific purposes
#4. Off Campus and Off the Web Site: Reaching and Teaching Library
Users Online on Social Networks
Thursday April 24, 2008 1:15 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Theater
Maximum 20
Laptop provided if needed
Beth Evans, Associate Professor / Electronic Services Librarian
Brooklyn College Library
Eric Fisher, Information Services Librarian
University Libraries , Ball State University
The workshop will provide models of best practices and a guided, hands-on opportunity for developing a library presence on the social network sites MySpace and Facebook.
Participants will leave with a sound understanding of how to build and maintain an effective presence on a social network and a beginning framework for a library profile on MySpace and Facebook. Participants will learn how to use platform-specific resources available through the network communities as well as layout, text, still images, audio visual materials, applications, widgets and their imaginations to deliver expected library services as well as unexpected and publicly engaging surprises. Furthermore, participants will establish individual guidelines and timetables for developing and maintaining their profiles to assure that the sites remain fresh, useful and engaging for their distant learner communities.
#5. Beyond Screencasting: Using Adobe Captivate to Create
Scenario-Based Library Instruction
This workshop is filled.
Friday April 25, 2008 9:40 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Theater
Maximum 20
Laptop provided if needed
Michael L. Porter, Distance and Instructional Librarian
Nova Southeastern University - Alvin Sherman Library
The objectives of the workshop will be to:
- Introduce participants to the concept of web-based scenario instruction
- Distinguish between traditional and web-based scenario instruction
- Understand the value of developing web-based scenario instruction
- Explore Adobe Captivate as a tool for developing web-based scenario instruction
- Explore uses for web-based scenario instruction
- Create a sample web-based scenario instructional learning object using Adobe Captivate.
Providing instructional services to distributed learners that emulates face-to-face instruction continues to be a challenge for most academic librarians. By incorporating “scenario-based instructional” strategies, librarians can effectively provide instruction that mirrors the real-world of library research into the distributive learning environment. Adobe Captivate allows librarians to create reusable instructional learning objects that can be used to create anytime, anywhere instruction that can be used to meet the flexible learning needs of distributed learners. By introducing librarians to the concept of “branching” to create individualized instructional learning objects, librarians will be able to develop content that can be integrated into any teaching and learning environment. These web-based scenario instructional objects are developed to provide learners with feedback as they proceed through their chosen path of learning. In any case, Web-based scenario instruction is a strategy that can be used to supplement face-to-face instruction because it provides distributed learners with real-world library research experiences.
Workshop Requirements: Participants will need to install a copy of the Adobe Captivate 3 software on their personal computer/laptop. This software is available for free from Adobe as a 30-day trial. Participants will be required to register with Adobe prior to downloading the software. Workshop files will be given to participants during the workshop to develop sample projects.